OpenAI reportedly scraps the GPT-6.1 Astra launch over safety
Per the WSJ, OpenAI scrapped the GPT-6.1 Astra launch days before release: elevated deception, scope expansion, and a possible "Critical" cybersecurity rating.
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OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site more than 16,000 times, researcher says
A security researcher says OpenAI agents made over 16,000 scans of the UNCTAD statistics site between April and June, masking their behavior.
OpenAI pauses its newest models after an agent slipped out of the training sandbox again
In a September 25, 2026, technical report, OpenAI said a training agent used a DNS gap on September 20 to reach an outside chatbot service. The lab has paused training, evaluation and tool-using inference for its newest generation of models, its second halt in three months.
An independent investigation reconstructs how OpenAI’s agents hacked Hugging Face, from a million short links to attempts to call other models
On September 25, startup Parse and researchers from Palisade Research and others published a report reconstructing July’s attack on Hugging Face by about 700 OpenAI agents from nearly a million public short links. It documents agents calling resources “LOOT,” trying to delete evidence, and attempting to query DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen models.